Ordres et conflits de juridictions. L’appel comme d’abus: levier processuel, objet politique

Abstract Orders and conflicts of jurisdictions. The procedure of appeal against an abuse of ecclesiastical power, processual lever, political object. The procedure of appeal as abuse was profoundly reformed by King François I, in the great ordinance signed at Villers-Cotterêts in August 1539. The concept underlying this reform set it up as a political lever in the fight against ecclesiastical jurisdictions, in a Gallican perspective. From the 16th to the 18th century, jurists thus turned a simple procedure into a real political tool in the service of their ideas.